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Big Data, medicine and Dr Gregory House

I am a big fan of House. BIG FAN ! I guess what I really like is the infectious curiosity…

Inflection point in Global mobile sales – Q2 2013

The latest Gartner Mobile sales reports are clearly saying one thing – the 2nd quarter of 2013 has been the…

Bell Curve and the Appraisal Process

Imagine that a football team needs a manager/coach, someone who can motivate the players and help them deliver much more…

Mobile Money Facts and Figures

Opportunity Scale 1.8 billion people globally have mobile phones but no bank acocunts (World Bank)   Success Stories/Adoption Figures 20%…

Automobile recalls in Indian Market

May 2013: Updated  with the new Nissan Micra & Sunny recall data. ———————————————————————————————————————- Aug 2012: The recent and much covered…

Obsessing over finer details

I have heard way too many stories about how some of the most iconic brands were built by obsessing over…

Next Phase of Search Engine Wars

A close friend of mine, just started his own venture after spending over a decade in the banking industry. He…

If everyone treated us like our mobile operators

TataDoCoMos recent ad campaigns have been very powerful, to say the least. Kudos to the agency and the marketing teams…

Where’s the Cupid in our Education System

I was reading this incredible story yday and Dandu bhai’s one line stuck a chord with me – I realized…

Offline to online

Offline + online connect, was and remains an interesting area for internet innovation – simply because in our real-lives we…

The Digital Insurer

Going Digital is no longer a choice that insurers have, its something they need to do and now. What insurers…

Next phase of digital marketplaces

Internet adoption has seen the evolution of some usual suspects across most geographies and one of the key category is…

Corporate Culture Localization

Many global companies have adopted an approach of customizing their products to suit the local needs. McDonalds came up with…

Celebrity Endorsements Work

Had a very interesting chat with the guy who runs the sports-shop at the Sports Complex where I go for…

Loss making airlines and profitable aggregators

The Indian skies are witnessing a strange situation. Most of the carriers who form the backbone of Indian aviation industry…

Education Industry – next set of challenges

Private sector, higher education in India has probably seen a complete cycle of sorts in the last 8-10 years. What…

Going the last mile in integrated advertising

Just came back from a Mahindra showroom here in NOIDA. Its a mess out there with the much hyped launch…

Change and how we react to it

Its an oft repeated statement that an optimist see opportunities where others see challenges. It can not be truer in…